There is a long period in the history of world culture when women were not allowed to write. Of course, these times have long since sunk into oblivion. But prejudices still persist in the dark nooks and crannies of male consciousness. The Soviet woman, whom the entire civilized world knows as Victoria Tokareva, proved with her work that even shrewd representatives of the male part of the population very often live in captivity of their delusions and stereotypes.
Girl from Leningrad
A meaningful biography of a famous person begins at the age of twenty. Until this age, life is reduced to standard phrases and data from documents. Victoria Tokareva was born into a Leningrad family. In 1937. The future writer was brought up in a family where her father worked as an engineer and her mother as an embroiderer. The child, unlike the older sister, grew up sickly. When the war began, the head of the family, despite his poor health, joined the militia. The mother and the girls were evacuated to the Urals.
The father did not survive the war - he died in a hospital bed in January 1945. The mother did not marry again and “raised” the children as best she could, on her own. Of course, the father's elder brother helped the relatives, but he could not fully replace the girls' father. During her school years, Victoria dreamed of becoming a doctor. However, for some reason, she was not admitted to the medical institute. I had to get an education at a music school. When the girl turned twenty, she married an engineer named Tokarev. She left and moved to a permanent place of residence with her husband, in Moscow.
In the capital, she found a job as a music school teacher. The time has come to say that Victoria began to "dirty paper" in her teens. Mom often read aloud to her fairy tales and stories of Russian writers. A girl with a good memory and imagination absorbed plots, turns of speech, comparisons. By the time I had to teach children music, Tokareva had already written a lot. The school regularly held creative meetings with famous people. Once, at such an event, Tokareva met Sergei Mikhalkov. On the recommendation of the master, she was admitted to the screenwriting department of VGIK.
Texts without lies
In 1964, Tokareva became a student at a prestigious institute and published her first story. The career of a writer and screenwriter began during his studies. There is nothing surprising in the fact that at the same time with her diploma the writer received her first book from the printing house, entitled "About That Which Was Not." It should be emphasized that the writer tends not only to memorize events and facts in the surrounding reality, but also to notice various nuances of people's behavior. She knows from her own experience how a married woman lives. And what kind of "cockroaches" she has in her head and other parts of her body.
The personal life of the writer is full of legends, speculation and piquant truth. At a certain stage of her work, Victoria Tokareva writes scripts, according to which a good two dozen films have been shot. It is enough to name the films "Gentlemen of Fortune" and "Mimino" to understand that Tokareva creates masterpieces. For those who like to wash the bones, celebrities can reveal the "secret" that mutual sympathy has developed between the director Danelia and the screenwriter Tokareva. This sympathy grew into a novel that lasted a decade and a half.
To this I must add that Victoria managed to save her family. Husband and wife have not lost respect for each other. Apparently, this is not only mutual tolerance, but also the feeling that falls under the definition of love. The Tokarevs already have grown-up grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. They live in the suburbs.
